A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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34 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Labour In Vain

Labour In Vain: Numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.

Labyrinth

Labyrinth: Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders!

Lamentations

Lamentations: Why should calamity be full of words?

Land Owner

Land Owner: He hath much land, and fertile: - 'Tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. H.v.2.

Lark

Lark: The lark, whose notes do beat The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.

Late Hours

Late Hours: Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?

Latin

Latin: Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin

Laughter

Laughter: With his eyes in flood with laughter. O, you shall see him laugh, till his face be like a wet cloak, ill laid up.

Law

Law: We have strict statutes and most biting laws.

Leader

Leader: Another of his fashion they have not; To lead their business.

Lean Visage

Lean Visage: Would he were fatter: -But I fear him not:- Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon…

Learning

Learning: O this learning! what a thing it is!

Leek, The

Leek, The: Will you mock at an antient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of

Leering

Leering: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves

Legitimacy

Legitimacy: Sirrah, your brother is legitimate: Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him: And if she did play false, the fault was…

Lenity

Lenity: For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity?

Letter

Letter: An' it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to

Liar

Liar: Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of

Liberty

Liberty: Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,

Licentiousness

Licentiousness: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint.

Life

Life: Thy life's a miracle.

Light

Light: Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of…

Lightning

Lightning: Like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say, -It lightens !

Lineage

Lineage: A plague of both your houses!

Lion

Lion: "Tis The royal disposition of that beast, A.Y.iv.3. To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. So looks the pent-up lion o'er the…

Litigation

Litigation: I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any

Livelihood

Livelihood: You take my life,

Loneliness

Loneliness: Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about

Longevity

Longevity: A light heart lives long. LONG (STORIES). Men, pleas'd themselves, think others will delight In such like circumstance, with…

Lord's Anointed

Lord'S Anointed: A flourish, trumpets!--strike alarum, drums ! Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed.

Love

Love: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with…

Lover's Vows

Lover'S Vows: Giving more light than heat, -extinct in both, Even in their promise, as it is a making,-- You must not take for fire.

Love-Wound

Love-Wound: Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid; thou hast thump'd him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap.

Luck

Luck: You're a made old man; if the sins of your youth are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold !

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